Cultural chaos : journalism, news, and power in a globalised world

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Title:

Author:

McNair, Brian, 1959-

ISBN:

9780415339131

9780415339124

9780203448724

Personal Author:

McNair, Brian, 1959-

Publication Information:

Oxon, England ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

Physical Description:

xxi, 248 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Cultural chaos and the globalisation of journalism -- Materialism and the media -- From control to chaos -- The politics of chaos: democracy, media, and the decline of deference -- Cultural chaos and the end of ideology -- Cultural capitalism and the commodification of dissent -- Mapping the global public sphere, I: transnational satellite news -- II: online journalism and the blogosphere -- From blogosphere to public sphere? -- Global news culture and authoritarianism -- Democracy and hyper-democracy -- Controlling chaos -- Conclusion and postscript: cultural chaos and the critical project.

Abstract:

"Cultural Chaos explores the changing relationship between journalism and power in an increasingly globalised news culture. It examines the processes of cultural, geographic and political dissolution which are a feature of the post-Cold War era, in the context of global ideological realignment, rapid evolution in information and communication technologies, and an increasingly anarchic cultural marketplace. It investigates the impact of these trends on domestic and international journalism, and on political processes in democratic and authoritarian societies across the world. It also assesses the implications of these trends for media scholarship."

"With examples drawn from media coverage of the war on terror and the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Hurricane Katrina and the London Underground bombings, students and teachers will find in Cultural Chaos an overview of the evolution of the sociology of journalism, a critical review of current sociological thinking within media studies, and an argument for revision and renewal of the paradigms which have dominated the field since the early twentieth century. Separate chapters are devoted to the rise of the blogosphere and satellite television news."

Subject Term:

Journalism -- Social aspects.

Broadcast journalism.

Government and the press.

Electronic Access:

Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip061/2005029925.html

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With examples drawn from media coverage of the War on Terror, the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Hurricane Katrina and the London underground bombings, Cultural Chaos explores the changing relationship between journalism and power in an increasingly globalised news culture.

In this new text, Brian McNair examines the processes of cultural, geographic and political dissolution in the post-Cold War era and the rapid evolution of information and communication technologies. He investigates the impact of these trends on domestic and international journalism and on political processes in democratic and authoritarian societies across the world.

Written in a lively and accessible style, Cultural Chaos provides students with an overview of the evolution of the sociology of journalism, a critical review of current thinking within media studies and an argument for a revision and renewal of the paradigms that have dominated the field since the early twentieth century. Separate chapters are devoted to new developments such as the rise of the blogosphere and satellite television news and their impact on journalism more generally.

Cultural Chaos will be essential reading for all those interested in the emerging globalised news culture of the twenty-first century.